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Manchester Still Defiant On Statewide Testing
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — Mayor Ted Gatsas and the school board maintained their defiant stand against participating in the Smarter Balanced statewide assessment test, despite new warnings from the education commissioner that the move could imperil millions in federal funding for the district and the state as a whole.
The board voted on Monday night to refer to committee a proposal for a district-based assessment test, along with the possibility of giving parents an opt-out option for assessment tests.
The vote essentially disregarded a letter last week from state Education Commissioner Virginia Barry, in which she warned of “significant enforcement actions if (the district) refuses to comply with its obligation to participate in the uniform statewide assessment.”
In the letter, Barry reiterated that the district could not get a waiver from Smarter Balanced, set to be implemented in the spring. She said she confirmed that the state is obligated under federal education law to institute a statewide assessment test that is “used to measure the achievement of all children.”
Barry, who did not attend Monday’s meeting, added that Manchester’s actions potentially place “federal education funding in jeopardy statewide.”
In the fall, the state DOE withheld about $3.5 million in federal funding due to the district, only releasing the funds last month after Superintendent Debra Livingston wrote a letter in protest. The latest letter raises the possibility that the DOE could again withhold funds, which, Barry said in her letter, the state is authorized to do.
Livingston told the board on Monday that were the state DOE to withhold the next round of funding for the school year, it could leave a $5.8 million hole in district’s budget and force the layoff of teachers and other staff.
Gatsas said the entire state could be affected by Manchester's actions — involving $50 million in funding by his calculations. That should “get the attention” of legislators around the state, he said.
“Everyone wants to go to Concord and talk about local control; well this is clearly about local control,” he said.
Other board members expressed support for Gatsas’ position.
“Perhaps this is the beginning of us cutting those strings that keep us puppets to the feds,” Ward 10 board member John Avard said. “Maybe we could get rid of some of those programs that we don’t need in the district.”
But Ward 3 board member Chris Stewart, who has supported the push for national education standards, suggested that the district was acting recklessly.
“We're talking about $5.8 million going away,” Stewart said. “Is the Board of Mayor and Aldermen prepared to raise taxes (if the federal funding does not come through)?”
Only two board members voted against the proposal to have the board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee take up the topic of a district-based assessment test: Stewart and Ward 8’s Erika Connors.
tsiefer@unionleader.com
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See pdf Letters to Manchester NH School District -
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